I am an Associate Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business (City University of New York), where I focus on sports, antitrust, gaming, and intellectual property law. I also teach the only course in the country on fantasy sports law and provide legal consulting in the industry.

CBS Sports Continues To Inch Closer Toward 'Daily Fantasy Football'

This week, CBSCBS moved another step closer to offering daily fantasy football when it launched its Four Week Player Challenge – a pay-to-enter fantasy football contest that lasts for just four slates of NFL games.

CBS’s continued movement into shorter duration fantasy football games comes at a time when the popularity of daily fantasy football has been rising.

However, it also comes in the face of criticism levied against daily fantasy sports by some executives within the professional sports industry. For example, this spring Major League Baseball Advanced Media CEO Robert Bowman told the New York Times that he believes that daily fantasy sports games are “akin to a flip of the coin, which is the definition of gambling.”

Although fear of litigation has not deterred CBS from launching its Four Week Players Challenge, other large fantasy sports websites remain more wary about the potential risks of short-duration gaming. For example, YahooYahoo continues to offers full-season versions of fantasy football, but it does not offer any short duration games.

Meanwhile, ESPNESPN, which is owned by Disney, does not offer any form of play-for-cash fantasy football.

In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, and a legal consultant on sports, antitrust, gaming and intellectual property matters. Nothing contained in this article should be construed as legal advice.

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